The Collaborative International Dictionary
Klamaths
Klamaths \Kla"maths\, prop. n. pl.; sing. Klamath (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.
Usage examples of "klamaths".
Delia's grandmother had liked to tell the story: how a concerned neighbor, a bachelor with an interest in marriageable females, had pressed the gun upon her, back when the Klamaths were at war with the army of General Joel Palmer.
He was a brilliant Modoc leader, and the Modocs were put on the same reservation as their arch enemies, the Klamaths.